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A few days ago I got an interesting question from one of my blog readers. During my blogging battle with pattern matching , I mentioned the concept of compiling expression tree lamdas on the fly to IL-code. This is actually one of the core parts of the System.Linq.Expressions implementation when expressions...

Read more about it on http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2007/08/01/VS-SDK-Orcas-July-2007-CTP-released.aspx . I've been using the SDK for various years already and do like the overwhelming amount of extension capabilities of Visual Studio (tip: if you're unfamiliar with the SDK at the moment...

In order to help people to understand the hows of expression trees, I've created a simple application called the ExpressionLearner ( download it here ). It's written for Orcas Beta 2 and shows how expression trees work. A quick overview. What are expression trees? I assume you know a bit of programming...

No further comments needed - Soma has all of the information on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-release-of-visual-studio-2008-beta-2-net-fx-3-5-beta-2-and-silverlight-1-0-rc.aspx . I'll be switching from previous builds to Beta 2 this weekend and will blog...

The last couple of weeks my blog has been filled with LINQ to SharePoint stuff. Because of the project dimensions today and in the near future, it was decided to branch off all the LINQ to SharePoint stuff to the LINQ to SharePoint team blog . That's right, it says " team blog" since LINQ...

Welcome back to what's going to end up as "LINQ to SharePoint: The Cruel Sequel" :-). The last couple of days, LINQ to SharePoint has been a full-time job and the result is getting better and better build after build. In this post, I'd like to highlight another feature that was planned...

In today's post I'd like to introduce a new concept that will be introduced in LINQ to SharePoint v0.3: SPML or the SharePoint Mapping Language. It didn't make it for the 0.2 release due to time restrictions, but tonight the first portion of the POC code has been checked in to CodePlex. So...

Two months after the appearance of the 0.1.2 alpha release of LINQ to SharePoint , I'm proud to announce the availability of the 0.2 alpha release . If you can't wait any longer, here's the direct link to the release page . Q: So, what's new in this release? A: A bunch! No seriously,...

It's been a long ten days since the first announcement of the LINQ to SharePoint project, with lots of implementation and testing work but tonight I'm very excited to announce the availability of the first public alpha of the LINQ to SharePoint project. A few highlights of this release: Supports writing...

"Orcas" includes a new framework for account management in Active Directory. This post shows a little sample on how to use it. First, add a reference to the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll assembly from %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5.20209: Next, take a look at the following little...